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Cooch's bridge and monument, where first U. S. flag was unfurled in battle, Sept. 3, 1777 near Newark, Delaware

Cooch's bridge and monument, where first U. S. flag was unfurled in battle, Sept. 3, 1777 near Newark, Delaware

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Transcript

American Light Infantry and Cavalry under General William Maxwell encountered advance guard of British and Hessian troops under General Howe, Cornwallis and Kntphausen in this vicinity September 3, 1777. American troops were expert marksmen drafted by General George Washington from the several brigades of his army then encamped near Wilmington. Only battle of American Revolution on Delaware soil and claimed to have been the first in which the stars and stripes were carried.

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